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In its conference of January 19, 2018, the court will consider petitions involving issues such as whether Bowles v. Seminole Rock & Sand Co. and Auer v. Robbins should be overruled; whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit erred in holding that...

The U.S. Supreme Court’s 2003 ruling that declared a constitutional right to “intimate conduct” such as gay sex didn’t apply to sex for sale, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday in upholding California’s 146-year-old ban on prostitution, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. Three former prostitutes,...

The FBI is investigating whether a Russian banker with ties to the Kremlin illegally funneled money to the National Rifle Association to help Donald Trump win the presidency, McClatchy Newspapers reports. FBI investigators have focused on the activities of Alexander Torshin, the deputy governor of...

Officials from several San Francisco area law enforcement agencies said Wednesday that federal officials haven’t looped them in on any plans for major sweeps for undocumented immigrants, and added that they didn’t plan to help with any such operations, reports the San Francisco Chronicle. The...

The national decline in violent crime has paved the way for the urban revival, and the urban revival has in turn help to stabilize neighborhoods and make them safer and better places to live, Patrick Sharkey, author of a new book on the crime decline...

Killings in Camden, N.J., have fallen to the lowest level in more than three decades, offering some hope that change is finally on the horizon for a city long plagued by violent crime, reports the Wall Street Journal. There were 23 murders in the city...

The first execution of 2018 in Texas and the nation is expected to take place Thursday evening for Houston’s “Tourniquet Killer.” reports the Texas Tribune. Anthony Shore, 55, is a confessed serial rapist and strangler whose murders went unsolved in the 1980s and 1990s. With...

Advocates of stricter restrictions on gun ownership believe they can notch new wins in state legislatures this year, after Republicans in some states signaled they would be willing to break with the National Rifle Association to support new rules, The Hill reports. Advocates cited Massachusetts...

The popularity of Raise-the-Age reforms, which have increased the age at which juvenile offenders can be tried in adult court, illustrates a long-overdue policy shift across the U.S. away from punishment and towards the rehabilitation of young offenders.
Now, some states, like Connecticut, Illinois and Vermont,...

Employers are more likely to hire formerly incarcerated individuals if they are guaranteed a replacement in the event the individual doesn’t work out, according to a Rand study.
They also were 53 percent more likely to employ released inmates if a reentry service or state agency...